System Build

Four to eight weeks from kickoff to production.

$15,000 – $40,000 · 4–8 weeks. We build the core system: pipeline architecture, integrations, deployment. Production-ready, on your cloud, documented, with a full handoff.

You know what you need. Maybe you ran an architecture sprint with us. Maybe you’ve been thinking about this system for months. The requirements are clear, the business case is solid, and you’re ready to build. What you don’t have is an engineer who has shipped production AI systems — someone who knows the difference between a demo that impresses in a meeting and infrastructure that runs reliably at 3 AM on a Saturday.

That gap is more expensive than it looks. A generalist developer can wire up an API call to GPT-4 in an afternoon. Getting that same system to handle edge cases, manage token limits, implement retry logic, maintain context across sessions, and degrade gracefully when the model returns garbage — that takes months of hard-won experience that most development teams don’t have.

We build the system your team would build if they had done this ten times before. Every design decision reflects lessons from production deployments — not theoretical best practices. The result is infrastructure that works on day one and keeps working when the load doubles, the model changes, or your requirements evolve.

At the end of the engagement, you own everything. The code. The infrastructure. The documentation. The deployment pipeline. We hand off a system that your team can maintain, extend, and operate independently. No lock-in. No ongoing dependency. A clean transfer of a working system.

What we build

Six categories. Production-grade. Fully owned by you.

Document intelligence pipelines

Multi-stage extraction, consolidation, and generation systems that turn unstructured documents into structured intelligence. OCR, NLP, entity extraction, narrative generation.

AI-powered generation systems

Content generation, report writing, personalization engines — systems that produce human-quality output with source attribution, consistency controls, and style matching.

Real-time operations dashboards

Unified monitoring across cloud providers, security signals, cost tracking, and infrastructure health. Live-streaming evaluation with attention-prioritized alerts.

Scoring and routing engines

Multi-dimensional matching algorithms that evaluate complex criteria in real time. Resource allocation, lead scoring, recommendation systems, and optimization engines.

Integration architectures

Connecting AI systems to your existing infrastructure: CRMs, ERPs, cloud services, email systems, calendar APIs. Authentication, data sync, webhook orchestration.

Compliance-aware AI systems

Data residency controls, audit logging, PII handling, model governance. For regulated industries where “move fast and break things” is not an option.

Weeks 1–2

Core architecture deployed. Pipeline validated.

We start with the infrastructure: cloud resources, deployment pipeline, database schema, authentication. Then we build the core pipeline — the critical path from input to output. By the end of week two, the fundamental system works. Not a prototype — working infrastructure running on your cloud, processing real data through the primary pipeline.

BUILD STATUS — WEEK 2

Infrastructure
Cloud resources provisioned — Azure Container Apps
CI/CD pipeline operational — GitHub Actions → Azure
Database schema deployed — 14 tables, migrations tested
Core Pipeline
Document ingestion: operational
Extraction engine: validated against 3 document types
Storage layer: write path confirmed
Next
Integration layer, secondary document types, generation engine

BUILD STATUS — WEEK 5

Pipeline Coverage
10/10 document types supported
3 integration endpoints connected
Error recovery: retry, fallback, and dead-letter implemented
Quality
847 test documents processed — 99.2% success rate
12 edge cases identified and resolved
Performance: P95 processing time 34s (target: 60s)
Remaining
Monitoring dashboard, load testing, documentation

Weeks 3–6

Every integration connected. Every edge case handled.

The build phase is where experience matters most. We connect every data source, handle every document type, implement error recovery, build the monitoring layer, and test against production-scale data. This is not where we discover problems — the architecture sprint already found them. This is where we solve them systematically, one integration at a time.

Final Week

Your system. Your cloud. Your code. Fully documented.

We deploy to production, write the documentation, record the walkthrough, and transfer ownership. Your team gets a system they can maintain and extend without us. The deployment pipeline is automated. The monitoring is live. The runbook covers every failure mode we’ve encountered. If your team has questions after handoff, we’re available — but the goal is independence.

HANDOFF PACKAGE

Deliverables
Source code — full repository with git history
Architecture documentation — 52 pages
API documentation — auto-generated from code
Runbook — 18 operational procedures
Infrastructure
3 environments: dev, staging, production
CI/CD: push to main → auto-deploy to staging → manual promote to prod
Monitoring: 8 dashboards, 12 alert rules
Transfer
Code ownership transferred
Admin credentials rotated
Final walkthrough recorded (2h 15m)

What you own

Everything. No lock-in. No dependencies.

The code

Full source code with git history. No obfuscation. No proprietary frameworks. Standard languages, standard libraries.

The infrastructure

Running on your cloud account. Your resources, your billing, your control. We never touch it after handoff unless you ask.

The documentation

Architecture docs, API docs, runbooks, deployment guides. Written for the engineer who maintains this after us.

The pipeline

Automated CI/CD from commit to production. Your team deploys with confidence from day one.

Investment

$15,000 – $40,000

4–8 weeks

Complexity determines the range. The architecture sprint provides the exact estimate.

Ready to build something real.

Every system build starts with an architecture sprint. It’s how we scope accurately, derisk effectively, and ensure we’re building exactly what you need. The sprint investment applies to the build — it’s not an additional cost.

Start with an architecture sprint

30-minute discovery call · No pitch deck